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Podcast: The Music Show
Episode: Sam Anning's earthenware and Beethoven's Missa solemnis at 200
Description: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that this program contains the name of someone who has died.Melbourne double bassist Sam Anning’s latest album is dedicated to Archie Roach. The album’s title Earthen comes from a remark Roach made from his hospital bed about instruments being ‘earthenware’—coming from the earth, carrying music and then returning to the earth. The septet on this record is made up of Anning's friends and long-term collaborators and he reflects on writing for specific people rather than instruments, and how tragedy and grief can become jazz.Two hundred...